ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,471, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to WAVESENSE INC. (Irvine, Calif.).

"System and method for liquid level detection" was invented by Kevin Christopher (Laguna Hills, Calif.), Ron Bergold (Laguna Woods, Calif.), Paul J. Gleason (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Andrew J. Boyce (Laguna Woods, Calif.), James Foster (Orange, Calif.), Bradley J. Sargent (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Nafiseh Jafari (Glendale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for measuring the volume of liquid contained in a vessel. A sensor array comprising a plurality of sensors and a laser apparatus comprising one or more lasers can be posi...